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“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”

G. Gordon Liddy

As quoted in "The Best Of The Rest: 20 More Quotes About Liberals" at Right Wing News (24 November 2010) http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-best-of-the-rest-20-more-quotes-about-liberals/

“Suffering. That was the key.”

G. Gordon Liddy

Liddy, G. Gordon, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (St. Martin's Press 1980), pg. 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=YRty_4HT_8kC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=liddy+Suffering.+That+was+the+key&source=bl&ots=RZK5OAAlFM&sig=xc-5y539aH5ERGbwmGwvfi-I0wY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidzYmrg5jeAhWxHTQIHf5_DoIQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=liddy%20Suffering.%20That%20was%20the%20key&f=false, describing his epiphany about how to conquer fear.
Compare the fictional reply, attributed to Liddy in All the President's Men (1976), when asked how he could keep his hand over a lit candle until his flesh seared: "The trick is not minding."

“If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.”

G. Gordon Liddy

Statements on his radio program (15 September 1994), as quoted in "Did MSNBC Know Liddy's History?" at FAIR (29 April 2005)

“Obviously, crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”

G. Gordon Liddy

As quoted in "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual (1987) by the Paragon Project, p. 7

“What I did was restate the law. I was talking about a situation in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes smashing into a house, doesn't say who they are, and their guns are out, they're shooting, and they're in the wrong place. This has happened time and time again. The ATF has gone in and gotten the wrong guy in the wrong place. The law is that if somebody is shooting at you, using deadly force, the mere fact that they are a law enforcement officer, if they are in the wrong, does not mean you are obliged to allow yourself to be killed so your kinfolk can have a wrongful death action. You are legally entitled to defend yourself and I was speaking of exactly those kind of situations. If you're going to do that, you should know that they're wearing body armor so you should use a head shot. Now all I'm doing is stating the law, but all the nuances in there got left out when the story got repeated.”

G. Gordon Liddy

On his 1994 comments on taking head shots at ATF agents, as quoted in a 2003 interview at Right Wing News http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/liddy.php